Kuhl v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Ebroe to review a judgment of the circuit court for Grant county: George ClemeNtsoh, Circuit Judge. Christine Kuhl, wife of plaintiff in error, died Friday, August 27, 1915, having b'een unconscious from 9 o’clock in the evening of Wednesday, August 25th. The plaintiff in error, her husband, was charged with the murder, of his wife, and upon the trial a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree was returned.
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Ebroe to review a judgment of the circuit court for Grant county: George ClemeNtsoh, Circuit Judge. Christine Kuhl, wife of plaintiff in error, died Friday, August 27, 1915, having b'een unconscious from 9 o’clock in the evening of Wednesday, August 25th. The plaintiff in error, her husband, was charged with the murder, of his wife, and upon the trial a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree was returned. The motion for a new trial was denied and the defendant, plaintiff in error, sentenced to two years in the state prison, and brings such judgment here for review.
1Opinion of the CourtEschweileb, J.
The deceased was pregnant at the time of her death. The testimony disclosed that at a post-mortem *496examination the physicians ’discovered, upon removing the upper part of the skull, that the left temporal muscle showed evidence of having been injured by violence and on the opposite side of the skull a hemorrhage had taken place, and that this, in their opinion, was caused by external force or violence and was the cause of her death. These physicians were not asked and did not testify as to whether the indications discovered by them disclosed in any way the nature of the blow, if such it was,…
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